HUMANS are living in a simulation, according to two of the world’s top astronomers who claim there is also evidence to prove it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, star of the hit docu-series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odysee, and theoretical physicist Brian Greene, co-founder of the World Science Festival, made the claims that life is not as we know it, during Mr Tyson’s podcast StarTalk.

They were discussing philosopher Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper ‘Are you living in a simulation?’ when they mentioned three points to look out for.

Mr Bostrom suggests future generations will be able to create computers so powerful that we will not be able to distinguish between reality and simulations.

He wrote: “Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct).